The Argument of the Action : Essays on Greek Poetry and Philosophy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benardete, Seth.

Contributor:

Burger, Ronna.

Davis, Michael.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (457 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Summary:

This volume brings together Seth Benardete’s studies of Hesiod, Homer, and Greek tragedy, eleven Platonic dialogues, and Aristotle’s Metaphysics. The Argument of the Action spans four decades of Seth Benardete’s work, documenting its impressive range. Benardete’s philosophic reading of the poets and his poetic reading of the philosophers share a common ground, guided by the key he found in the Platonic dialogue: probing the meaning of speeches embedded in deeds, he uncovers the unifying intention of the work by tracing the way it unfolds through a movement of its own. Benardete’s original interpretations of the classics are the fruit of this discovery of the “argument of the action.”

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. The First Crisis in First Philosophy

2. Achilles and the Iliad

3. The Aristeia of Diomedes and the Plot of the Iliad

4. The Furies of Aeschylus

5. Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus

6. Euripides' Hippolytus

7. On Greek Tragedy

8. Physics and Tragedy: On Plato's Cratylus

9. On Plato's Symposium

10. Protagoras's Myth and Logos

11. On Plato's Lysis

12. On Interpreting Plato's Charmides

13. Plato's Laches: A Question of Definition

14. On Plato's Phaedo

15. Plato's Theaetetus: On the Way of the Logos

16. On Plato's Sophist

17. The Plan of Plato's Statesman

18. On the Timaeus

19. On Wisdom and Philosophy: The First Two Chapters of Aristotle's Metaphysics A

20. Strauss on Plato

Selected Works by Seth Benardete

Index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Benardete, Seth The Argument of the Action

ISBN:

9780226831039

0226831035

OCLC:

1416747583